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Unemployment Is No Ground to Deny Maintenance to Wife and Child: Karnataka High Court

15 Jul 2026 4 min read
Unemployment Is No Ground to Deny Maintenance to Wife and Child: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has reaffirmed that an able-bodied husband cannot avoid his legal obligation to maintain his wife and child merely by claiming that he is unemployed. In Sri Harish R. v. Smt. Sowmya and Another, the Court upheld the maintenance awarded by the courts below and refused to interfere with the concurrent findings directing the husband to pay ₹8,000 per month each to his wife and son under…

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